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  • China: students learn IHL through debate at Shanghai Debating Competition

    Tongji University won the final round of the second Shanghai Debating Competition on Humanitarian Issues at Fudan University on 21 April 2012.

    24-05-2012 Feature

  • The ICRC in Uganda

    The ICRC in Uganda helps develop the capacity of the Uganda Red Cross Society, monitors the treatment of detainees countrywide and promotes international humanitarian law (IHL) to the armed forces, universities and national authorities.

    23-05-2012 Overview

  • Bangladesh: border guards strengthen their awareness of international humanitarian and human rights laws

    The Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB), the largest security force in the country, are to take part in a training course on international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The course, jointly organized by the BGB's Khulna Sector Headquarters and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will be held on 22 and 23 May.

    22-05-2012 News Release

  • Iran/Iraq: striving to end uncertainty for families of war missing

    The mortal remains of 98 Iranian and 13 Iraqi soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war between the two countries were repatriated today at the Shalamja border crossing near Basra with support from the ICRC.

    22-05-2012 News Release

  • Haiti: new centre for disabled rekindles hope

    The Special Fund for the Disabled of the ICRC officially inaugurated a new physical rehabilitation centre in Port-au-Prince today. The facility opened its doors following a year of rebuilding and repair work on the previous structure, which was destroyed by the earthquake of 12 January 2010.

    22-05-2012 News Release

  • Armenia: trees as living symbols of memory and hope

    Families recently gathered in Gyumri, northern Shirak, to plant trees as a reminder of relatives missing since the 1988-1994 Nagorny Karabakh conflict.

    22-05-2012 Feature

  • China: film about Red Cross messages receives prize at Houston Film Festival

    In April 2012, 25 Words – a 90-minute documentary made by Liu Shen – won the Remi Award Bronze Medal at the 45th WorldFest-Houston International Independent Film Festival, the oldest independent film festival in the world.

    21-05-2012 Interview

  • Malaysia: ICRC training vital for peacekeepers

    Colonel Sardon bin Hassan, Commandant of the Malaysian Peacekeeping Training Centre (MPTC) in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, recalls a special moment of his career and talks about the ICRC's work.

    21-05-2012 Feature

  • ICRC to award prize for photojournalism on threats to health services

    At the 24th Visa pour l'image international photojournalism festival, which will be held in the French city of Perpignan from 1 to 16 September 2012, the ICRC will award the second Humanitarian Visa d'or photojournalism prize.

    21-05-2012 News Release

  • ICRC Delivers another Health Pilot Project in northern Uganda to the authorities

    Following the successful completion of an on-going Health Pilot Project (HPP) that resulted in significant improvement in the health status of prison inmates at the Gulu Prison in Gulu District, Northern Uganda, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is today handing over the project to the Uganda Prison Service (UPS).

    18-05-2012 News Release

  • Profession: doctor health unit

    18-05-2012 Job Opportunity

  • South Sudan: thousands displaced as fighting escalates

    Since the beginning of the year, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to respond to mounting humanitarian needs in South Sudan. In early April, needs increased further when hostilities erupted along the border with Sudan. Update of activities with photos by Tom Stoddart.

    16-05-2012 Operational Update

  • Profession: assistant - multilateral organizations, policy & human action

    16-05-2012 Job Opportunity

  • South Sudan: struggling for survival as conflict intensifies

    People living in the border region between South Sudan and Sudan are struggling to survive in an area gripped by armed violence that continues to escalate. Getty photographer Tom Stoddart captures their struggle and the ICRC's efforts to help them.

    16-05-2012 Photo gallery

  • Yemen: scores of civilian casualties in intense fighting in Abyan

    Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC) – Over the past few days, an escalation in fighting has resulted in scores of civilian casualties in Ja'ar, Abyan governorate.

    16-05-2012 News Release

  • IHL bibliography

    The bibliography contains English and French articles related to international humanitarian law subjects. It is based on the acquisitions made by the ICRC library.

    15-05-2012 Miscellaneous

  • Sri Lanka: living daily in a state of anguish and uncertainty

    “Disappearance is far worse than death, because when a person dies, when I know that so-and-so is dead, the story ends and somehow or other we close the chapter. But when a person has disappeared, it is an eternal suffering.” A representation made before the Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation, 12 November 2010.

    15-05-2012 Feature

  • Sri Lanka: a systemic approach to tackling recurrent problems in prisons

    Making confidential visits to people detained in connection with armed conflict or other situations of violence, with the purpose of assessing their conditions of detention, is an integral part of the ICRC’s work. The ICRC is currently performing this humanitarian work in over 70 different countries around the world.

    15-05-2012 Feature


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